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Been stumped on this one for a little while now, I've got a 96 eclipse gst and it's a parts swap nightmare. It has a 97-99 engine harness, with a 1g 7 bolt, 95 ecu, and a auto awd trans. I've fixed most of the issues I could see with the wiring but I can't seem to find why the fuel pump won't...

I've kind of hit a brick wall with my spyder (believe its a 97) revival and am looking for a little bit of help or anyone that knows if there's any quirky differences from the spyder's to the regular hard tops. I've recently pulled the drive train out of a working driving 2ga awd talon and put...

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Hey random question here folks, this summer I picked up a 97 eclipse gst that was imported from texas 15 years ago and sat since. I crawled under it to fix some damaged components and noticed it had what appears to be a brand new auto awd trans in it. My question is can I run that trans like...

Hey fellow canadian DSMrs I recently just put a new windshield in my mk7 golf gti and decided I'd price out windsheilds for my 1g's and 2g's as well..... Except I was told windshields were no longer available in Canada for BOTH generations!! Does anyone know different? Ive been told at 3 glass...

Lets see all the truly condemned dsms everyones come across in their travels. I havent found a thread like this yet and it'd be interesting to see how bad some cars are....all you fellow rust belter's will know that im talking about. I recently picked up a group of 3 1gb talons and was blown...

Well this last weekend I scored some nice low km 1g's for a nice cheap price. I finally got my clean 1g I've always wanted, scored a rare laser rs awd as well sadly tho she's been wrecked pretty good and not worth repairing. The bonus is both are low km cars, both manual and both awd for 1k its...

Ok for the past year or so I've been battling problems with my 1g lean AFR's at idle, miss's at certain RPM's and unbelievable knock rates for no apparent reasons. I've boost leak tested to exhaustion and have eliminated all boost leaks, I converted back to a 1g from a 2g maf, then back to a 2g...

Just wanting to hear other people experiences with RTM in the last few months since Ziggy left. I've noticed service has gone way way way down hill. There's far less communication, and things are taking longer to be shipped. I order some stuff from RTM last Thursday with one day...

I finally got around to rebuilding a 6 bolt this last month to replace my tired 7 bolt. When priming the engine I noticed I wasn't getting any oil pressure to the head, it was getting some oil but no oil pressure. I went ahead and finished up assembly then did first start Monday afternoon and...

I'm doing my first engine rebuild, thus far nothing appears to be going right. I'm about to gap my piston rings and am wondering if I have to gap the wave ring that sits between the oil rings? I'm unsure on this and I can't find anything about it even on youtube. It seem way to tight for thermal...

I just picked up a set of 17" by 9.5 ssr koenigs, they need a restoration but I was wondering if anyone has run a set before? Looking for a picture of them on a 1g so I can decide on what colour to paint them. Going to be wrapping them in a nice set of Michelin pilot super sports.

Needing a few answers here, I managed to snag some really nice 2 gen VR-4 brakes and drilled rotors at the scraper the other day. I know the 1st gen 3kGT VR-4 brakes fit and theres kits for them but I'm wondering what my options are for these 2nd Gen brakes? I only have the single piston front...

Hey folks I'm in need of a little help here. I've been blowing oil seals like crazy in my turbo's (been through 5 and the 6th is about to give out now) and I believe it has everything to due with high oil pressure. I never ran my engine with balance shafts so I don't know if this is a direct...

Looking for some experienced peoples opinion between doing a stockish rebuild or forged internal's. I'm looking for a good in between'er of long life and durability. My plan is for a 400-550hp build that's going to last a few years of DD driving (I usually put on 20k miles a year, some times...

I'm having problems with major back firing after letting off the throttle, where it be just cruising or coming off of boost. It's done a number on turbo's (been through 4 now) already, it took only 2 weeks to wreck my nicely rebuild 14b from Justin. I do have spiky boost condition's, haven't...

Well I'm tearing into my dizzum yet again to fix my bad valve seals and high oil pressure......grab the harmonic balancer and it does a "thunk" the crank moved around 1-1.5 mm with the balancer. Thinking my poor old 7 bolt may not be much longer in this cruel place we call a world lol. Worse...

So to cut right to the chase I bought a 2g dsmlink setup for dirt cheap locally, it came with a spare ecu board which was supposedly bad......I noticed it was socketed and had a DSMlink chip in it. I looked it over really good using the ECMtuning Wiki guide and couldn't find any leaking caps...

Ok I'm having a problem lately with my 1g breaking up under WOT and only WOT. I have a innovate LC1 installed to show me what my AFR's are and it seems to be very accurate. What my cars doing is it'll go rich under full boost (running waste gate pressure) I'll see mostly 9.9-10.9 AFR's at WOT...

Ok well hopefully I'm in the correct forum (if not I'm very very sorry modds, didn't do it on purpose!). Just wondering how have people's experience been with the gauges recently? the last threads are a few years old and I heard they made changes etc. I'm running Pro Sports digital boost/oil...

I've just got a quick question about installing a innovate mtx-l wideband, I've read through all the threads I could find on the subject matter and couldn't find a definite answer on for my question. I'm wondering if I can run one with a factory ECU or would I need say ecmlink or AEM EMS to...

Ok to explain a little I cant get my stupid engine to base time. It will either advance one tooth or retard one tooth, swapped belts as well to rule out a stretched timing belt and still no go. Engines all stock Will have the cams set and locked in position but the crank sprocket teeth will...

Just thought I'd give everyone a heads up to watch their paypal accounts closely. My paypal account was hacked and someone was messing around with my bank account yesterday and today. A few days leading up to all of this I was receiving emails from "paypal" to "Update" my banking information, I...

I'm looking for a 1g Roof rack but haven't had to much luck, I've only found one Thule rack that fits my car with the crazy price of $560.00 I'm really in need of one for my bike and I have to make a 6 hour drive to pick up a new hatch for my supra in a week. Anyone know of any reasonably priced...

Found this little series on youtube (ongoing) and though if others hadn't seen it some would absolutely love to. The quality of fab work is mind blowing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hCPODjJO7s&list=UUHvBHWBzzB7NyU5tIiEZHBgtheir on their 5th video which was released a few weeks ago...

Ok I've searched the forums but haven't got a definite answer to my question. but first let me give a little back story. Got my talon put together last fall and found i only had 2 gears, did a little searching here on tuners and found that my tran bracket was a 90 while the rest (shifter base...

I'm having a few electrical gremlins that are starting to piss me off. First off is my windows won't go up or down but there getting power but I haven't yet checked how much currents getting between the switch and motor. Next issue I'm not getting power to my heater motor switch, checked the...

Ok I'm just looking for some knowledge on what my problem might be before I track down a new tran. Little info my cars a 92 awd I got as a roller 2 years ago found a guy selling a 93 awd this last august complete running car with a blown clutch or tran so I bought it and found a disintegrated...

Hey guys I need a couple leads on some problems I'm having. First is my starter will only turn the engine over half the time, when it doesn't engage with the flywheel it just "whizzes" so to speak. I did find an article on it that said to check grounds etc, so I did and they all checked out...

Just another quick easy question for the wisemen. I need a new rear caliper for my 1g and there's a 2g being parted out a couple blocks away. So I'm wondering will the rear calipers be swap-able? I know on the 2g rear calipers are mounted towards the front and the 1gs towards the rear and the 2g...

ok I got two quick questions, ones for Justin or any other knowledge-able turbo rebuilder's.First question is what size tap do I need for the 10mm bolts on our cars? I don't have the right tap in my kit and don't know how to go about sizing it up. I've looked through the forums for a while...

Hey fellow tuners, I'm in the early stages of my build process and having a lot of panel replacement to do but no welder and no one willing to come do my welding for me. I work a semi repair shop and our part supplies drop off catalogs for us a lot, I noticed the thermal arc fabricator 181i and...

I'm working on re installing my body harness and am unsure of how the harness runs thought the drivers side of the engine bay.:rolleyes: I forgot to take a reference pictures when tearing it out and am wondering if some ones got a good pic or a link to a good pic of the drivers side body harness...

hey don't know who's all seen this video or interested but thought I'd share it as I'm a lover of most all import sports cars. Its a video of some SCCA spec miata crash's, god I love the awesomeness of miata's!! Spec Miata Crash Videos - YouTube

Just a quick basic question that I cant seem to find the answer to. Are the single piston brake calipers between the n/t fwd and AWD interchange able I'm building a 92 tsi AWD out of a 92 n/t gs and I'm missing virtually the whole brake system on the AWD shell.

Ok well I'm still in the early stages of my build right now and I'm coming up to the engine bay paint stage.:barf: I was wondering what kind of experience people have with dupli color paints and spray paints in general before I get started. I've been looking around for weeks for any tech type...

ok just a quick question about spot weld cutting bits. I have started removing my door rocker panels using a standard drill bit and was wondering if any one has used the spot weld bit harbor freight sells? worth buying or should I just keep center punching and drilling them out? I'd just like to...

I'm sure people have heard of this car.:D But I cant wait to see it in our dealerships in Canada. Going to be one sick fun car with style, and for the price you cant go wrong. Ya you could get a genesis but everyone has them already.......plus its....well toyota, cant forget how legendary the...

Hey I have a friend with a 91 talon tsi who's recently rebuilt his engine and when it came time to start it up he cranks it over and blows is 30a ignition fuse, he went through about 8 already and is trying to track down his problem but cant find it. Everything's hooked up, all ground wires are...

Just wondering what everyone spends their money on when its a choice between their dsm and something say less expensive or something that will last longer? (tax refunds to) Curious to see what other interests people have other then DSM's on here.I got my income tax back and after much debating...

hey guys just wondering if its possible to put in new seals on a awd tranny with out tearing it right down

Thought you guys um might wanna see this if you haven't already! rawr!!!S. Woods Mud Hole #2 - YouTube and decently cool idea!I also found a video where a guy puts 2 4g63's in a 1g talon a year ago but I cant find it now. But I'm look because its such a cool video!! here they are!! Thanks...

ok I'm a fwd guy thats swapping a n/t engine into a awd shell with a 90" awd tranny and 22 spline tcase and doing the n/t to turbo swap. But Not having experience with AWD trannies I'm unsure if this is ok or bad. but my question is should a tcase output shaft be able to just be pulled in and...

hey guys well I found a rust hole under my trim today and after pulling all the running board panels off I found a lot more rust but not through yet. It's on the shell I'm building up so I have time to work on it, but my dad told me there's a chemical that you can spray on that completely eats...

Hey I heard about all the crazy number of tornado's you guys are having in the states. Just hope you guys and your DSM's are all ok, hope the wierd weather doesn't last to much longer for you guys. Canada's been really weird this year to but we ain't got nothing on you guys!!

Hey guys I need a little help here fast. I have a 92 AWD shell I'm rebuilding out of a n/t parts and I need a wiring harness I found an auto awd 1ga and got the ecu out of it but was wondering if the engine wiring harnesses are the same between the manual and auto? Their crushing the car in 3...